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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By theoneandonlycarlyk | Views [120] | Scholarship Entry
I grew up in a small city called South Milwaukee. It was small enough that everyone knew everyone else and everyone knew everyone else's business. I loved my family with all of my heart, but I couldn't stay there after I graduated because I was suffering ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By heymiyuki | Views [204] | Scholarship Entry
On the first leg of our trip from Lima to Machu Pichu, my Peruvian friend Michelle sat to my right, wearing a bright red sweater, drawing something intricate in her sketchbook. It wasn't until we took our next bus--the one without a toilet, requiring ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By lizdefegely | Views [222] | Scholarship Entry
We drove out of Indio, hit the freeway and entered the barren nothingness of the desert. It was an instant change in scenery from Indio’s oasis of palm trees, golf courses and polo fields. California’s interior is captivating and humbling in its size, ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By peacesofhelen | Views [126] | Scholarship Entry
'Twas 1994 - I was born in China and my father died. My family was dirt poor. Our bathroom was somewhere outside, and our bed was anywhere we lied down. Immediately, I was weaned away from my mom so she can go to Korea to make money. She came home one ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By nebulouslyadventurous | Views [990] | Scholarship Entry
When you’re small the world is small. Which is why travel in our youth is so affecting. It’s the stripping away of familiarity and exposing ourselves to the strangeness outside of us. Reality that once was small and concrete morphs into something tremendous ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By apollopoetry | Views [328] | Scholarship Entry
My eyes were closed. I was having flashbacks of my entire life and every choice that led me to this moment. I can feel the oxygen rushing into my chest like a water dam that has been breached. The air flooded my lungs and activated an indescribable energy.... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By dylanwilliamson | Views [143] | Scholarship Entry
I'll never forget the day I arrived in Jacksonville, Florida to begin my adventures on a cruise to the Bahamas. When I arrived to the port, i saw this gigantic ship with the words "FASCINATION" on it, painted in big red letters. I knew right then and ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By duchessofuke | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
For those in the pews, order of service booklets were doubling up as fans; passages from Corinthians, prayers and hymn lyrics flapping about unrhythmically. Up in the gods, we had no such salvation from the mid-May Manhattan heat and would have to console ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By sferalin01 | Views [159] | Scholarship Entry
The first time I saw the Eiffel Tower it looked cold. A grey sky sent raindrops that wash the streets clean and pooled in the gutter washing pedals from the budding trees and cigarette butts dancing down the side of the road. The sidewalks were empty, ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By emmielemarchand | Views [180] | Scholarship Entry
Licking the chocolate frosting off her pinky she grinned childishly. She was at Crumbs Bakery for her first real flavour of New York City in the form of a cupcake. On a pillow of chocolate cream frosting were dotted tiny white marshmallows, like city-... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By chrissy | Views [119]
I had no plan that day and I was on the metro with a man who took three tries tying his tie before getting the right length. It made me smile while I stole glances at him and everyone else pretending not to see him.
Besides my general appreciation ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By randommemoriesfromeverywhere | Views [198] | Scholarship Entry
It was the time my whole team and I were expecting, we had been preparing ourselves for approximately 6 months to make that dream come true, we were finally ready to represent Mexico at the HNMUN 2013. It was such a crazy adventure, first the guy who ... Read more >
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Fri, 9 May 2014 | By boysen | Views [209] | Scholarship Entry
Life in the Canadian prairies had heightened our imagination. With nothing but farmland as far as the eye could see, it's understandable that we craved a view. So the sunset sky, where the blue horizon met vivid pink and orange, became our oceanfront.... Read more >
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Fri, 9 May 2014 | By lost_in_adventure | Views [208] | Scholarship Entry
It was our third and last day in the big apple, and my friend and I couldn't wait to go see the Lion King on Broadway. We spent the day eating oversized slices of pizza, walking around central park and taking in the last sights and sounds of this amazing ... Read more >
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Fri, 9 May 2014 | By eyeseeusa | Views [148] | Scholarship Entry
on my first trip to the States, my unpreparedness for the trip had cost me a $100 meal! Ever since then I came to aware the importance to 'studying' beforehand to learn the local culture from previous visitors. On my recent Business trip to Boston, my ... Read more >
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